75 



June 8, 1897, H. Eggert ; Knoxville, April, 1897, A. Ruth, no. 

 i'ioi. 



Mississippi: Topelo, April 6, 1889, S. M. Tracy. 



Texas: Houston, April 10, 1872, E. Hall, no. 655 ; Houston, 

 April 17, 1900, B. F. Bush, no. 32; Uvalde, March 20, 1891, 

 E. N. Plank. 



Arkansas: Prescott, April 9, 1900, B. F. Bush, no. 552 

 Benton County, E. N. Plank, no, 45. 



Kansas: Cherokee County, 1896, A. S. Hitchcock, no. 844. 



AMSONIA AMSONIA IN NEW JERSEY 



By B. S. Miller 



May 23d a friend sent me a small specimen to identify, as it 

 had created quite a discussion at a card party. It was seen from 

 the roadside and picked to match a gown. Vanity, after all, is of 

 some use in this world, as it has been the means of establishing this 

 dainty little blue flower in New Jersey. Professor Britton veri- 

 fied it for me, as I saw it was not found so far north and in such 

 a dry locality. There were fourteen clumps of this plant grow- 

 ing in a high, dry, rolling field, rocky and of sandy soil. It is a 

 ten-acre lot cleared for building purposes, woods of oaks, chest- 

 nuts and hickories growing about three sides of it. The plants 

 show evidence of being there some time, for when the grass is 

 mown it has been cut down and old stalks are still on the roots — 

 four or five on some. There were such plants as these growing 

 in this same lot, which will give an idea of the poor soil. Three 

 large patches of Lupinus perennis, and in the midst of one, I 

 found six clumps of Amsonia ; as the blue being a much more 

 delicate shade, one could distinguish it from a distance. Fra- 

 garia Virginiana, Trifolium pratense, Rubus Canadensis, very 

 abundant, Potentilla argentea, Antennaria plantaginifolia., Chrys- 

 anthemum Leucanthemum and small patches of Pteridium 



